Why or when would I need my Land Surveyed?
The list below may give you some more ideas about why and when you would benefit from a land survey.
- When buying or selling land and you do not clearly know where the property corners or property lines are on the ground.
- When land is not clearly defined by a plat, legal description, or older land survey.
- When you cannot be certain of the location of your property boundaries.
- When building, land surveying is often used by many for proper planning to determine drainage, the location of existing improvements or the impact that restrictions such as setbacks may have on ones use of the land.
- Before building a fence, building, shed, or anything close to an unknown property line.
- Before timber is to be cut near a property line.
- When purchasing title insurance.
- Whenever a there is disagreement or dispute as to where a boundary line or corner is located.
- When you think you might have an encroachment on your land.
- When clearing or doing construction in "wetland" areas in the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers.
- Before developing property.
- Many times, an Attorney, Bank or title insurance agent will require that a land surveyor clear up an ambiguous land description, or verify the location of structures on the property so that the lending institution can agree to finalize a loan.
Definitions
Corner - means a point on a land boundary that designates a change in direction.
Meanderpoint - means a survey point or station marking a change in direction along a linear feature such as a watercourse, ridge, road, or cliff.
Monument - means an artificial man-made or natural object that is used as, or presumed to occupy, a property corner, point on a boundary line,or a reference point.
Plat Of Survey - means a drawing of a parcel or tract of real property used to depict the final results of a field survey.
Witness Monument - means a monument that does not occupy the same defined position as a corner and whose relationship to the comer is established.
Land Surveying - Land Surveying is utilizing the principles of geometry and trigonometry to determine the location, form, or boundaries of a tract of land by measuring and mapping the lines, angles and relative positions above, on or under the surface of the earth, or establishing such positions from legal or technical documents.
Sometimes, one may also consider the Land Surveyor to be a “professional measurer”. However, the Land Surveyor also deals not only with both mathematical and physical aspects of measuring, but applies them to the legal aspects of boundary law. Modern technology has changed how the Land Surveyor uses physical measuring and applying mathematics to the work. Modern instruments used today now reduce the physical labor involved in measuring, and have increased the accuracy of measurement. Advancements in computer technologies have increased the speed and reduced errors.
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